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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-12-13

We arc rhc sole agents u thr,,.clIi.
cd "a AUimanHI tlluI
tHtWnfRftYNr C0.
s box of good cigars Or a dcmiiulu 0t
oII MaIeHt CO. sherry Wine Is a ii.r tlu.f
mas pfc-rut. AMI cln boz hiI Of
tHAMHtnl AWE & co.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-12-13
A Tongue I'm Knots.

Icontracted malaria In the swamps OF Louis
lana while working for the telegraph company
and used every Kind Of medicine could hear
OF without relief. | at last succeeded in break
ing the fever but il cost me over sl0o. and
then my system was Frustrated and saturated
with malarial poison and l became almost
helpless. ! finally came here. my mout So
hlled with sores that could scarcely eat and
my tongue raw AMI filled with little knots.
Various remedies we've rosOrted 20 without
effect. / bought two bottles Of b. b. d. and
il has cured and strengthened me All sores OF
my mouth are healed and my tongue entirely
clear Of knots aad soreness. and feel Ike a
new man. \. /. BRlTTOs.
Jackson, Tenn. April % lss5.
stin Jolnts-A Most Remarkable Case OF
scrofuia and Rheumatism.
have a lite boy twelve years old whose
knees have been drawn almost double and bis
joints are perfectly stiff, aud has been in ;his
condition three years. unable 10 walk During
that time The Medical Board OF L0ud0n
county examined him. and pronounced thed
ease scrofula and prescribed, but no benefit
eyerderyed. then used much advertised
preparation without benefit. Three weeks ago
be- became perfectly helpless ami suffered
dreadfully.
A friend who had used b. %. b. advised ID.
use. tie has used one bottle aud all pain has
ceased and be can nov walk. This hss been
pronounced ID most wonderful action as biz
complaint had haRieiefcrythi ishauc0n
tinue 10 use 30 on him.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-09-22

anything save Havana tobacco was DE-
stroyine their business, ana for I time
the sending Of Pennsylvania and Con.
necticut tobacco there ceased. Now that
Kcy West cigars have once more . pres.
tige, certain manufacturers resort to the
old tactics, and the reputation Of Key
West for producing Ane quality Of e.
gars is fast being destroyed.
In 1880 the first pound Of eumatrs
tobacco made its appearance in this
country. It was rich looking, silky and
glossy, of uniform color, and at once
found favor with cigar manufacturers.
Its yield, too, for wrapping purposes
commended It, for It was found to 60
four times further than any native TO-
bacco. Grown on virgin soil by coolie
labor, its growers, the Dutch, found no
difficulty in finding q market for II. Il
was brought to Amsterdam, where It IL
sold by public auction, and buyers from
all parts of the world scramble in their
haste to get some of the precious leaf
Americans took kindly to the tobacco
from its inception, and so great was
the popularity which 1t obtained that
the American growers of cigar tobacco
became alarmed and besieged Con.
gress with flood of petitions. They
finally succeeded in getting the duty
on 1t raised from thirty-five cents to
seventy-five cents a pound, but they have
not succeeded in destroying its popular.
ity. II your cigar has q peculiarly thin
and glossy wrapper, free from any coarse
veins, be sure It is Sumatra tobacco.
The clear Havana cigar industry u
gradually assuming large proportions ih
this country. 1t is controlled almost en-.
tirely by Cubans or Spaniards who have
become citizens of the United States. They
employ almost wholly Cuban or Spanish
workmen, who pursue the same methods
~ are employed in Havana. No binder
is used, and the cigar is fashioned entirely
by the cigarmaker's skill. Az Havana
tobacco only is used, there is no reason
in the world why the cigars they produce
are not % good as the best imported.
The duty on Havana tobacco is thirty.
five cents Q pound, while the duty on
imported cigars 10 % 30 q pound and
twenty-five per cent ad Vdlorem, SO that
cigar costing $50 thousand in Havana
will cost 800 by the time it reaches here.
Wemade in this country this fiscal year
ended June 80 last something over
$3.50, 100000 cigars of all descriptions,
which at $3 thousand nets the govern
meut, IL Will DC seen, n6uubOme sum.
We import annually about 200, ,00O, 900
inferior quality, because of the high duty
placed upon them by our government.
The fine grades that cost from $3.50 to
$500 . thousand-twenty-ive to fifty
cents apiece in Havana-are all taken by
English and Russian noblemen. Spain
forbids by law any tobacco from coming
into Cuba whatever, so the cigars made
there are actually of Havana tobacco.
If was asked what kind of cigar I
preferred, consulting my modest pocket,
l would promptly say: An old-fashioned
seed and Havana cigar, the filler grade
of choice Vuelta Abajo Havana tobacco,
with Connecticut binder and wrapper,
for then l would have a smoke of solid
comfort and one fit for the gods.
ROBERT 81. FORD.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-09-22
CAPTURE OF A BOA IN A sEwER.
A Huge serpent Erishtsns . Lss Of
French Workmen.

A Huge serpent Frishtsns . Lss es
French Workmen.
Some sewer-men met with strange ID.
venture while ct work one night in one Of
the labyrinths Of subterranean Paris. Al
they were busily engaged in cleaning out
that par. Of the metropolitan cloacs which
Ii under the Boulevard de Ia Villette thew
suddenly heard loud and prolonged sound
Of kissing, which some of them took to be
the cries Of . person in distress, who had,
perhaps. fallen into the drain at one of the
open points. Redonnet, the foreman Of the
gang, thought, however, that the strange
noise was caused by evil-dOers, who were
probably hiding in the sewers from the
police; 20 be took up his shovel and marched
boldly toward the spot whence the sounds
proceeded. After having proceeded Q con-
siderable distance he saw by the dim light Of
the sewer lamps an enormous boa con-
strictor cOiled around one Of the water ducts
with its head protruding toward him. Re-
donnet Immediately stunned the reptile with
. vigorous blow from his shovel, and, his
workmen having come up, the whole party
set to work until they battered the LIE out
Of the ill-fated and imprudent boa. The re-
mains Of the reptile were then carefully col
lected and borne in triumph to the surface
Of the earth and then to the nearest police
station, where, II appears, the boa -"was
wanted" }" a. It had managed to escape ffom
the menagerie Of wandering Snowman,
who had been exhibiting his Fearful wild
fowP' TO the inhabitants of the municipal
boroughs Of L. Villette and La Chspelle,-
london Dolly 1slegraph.
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after that. He got in . couple Of little
scrapes. In the first one he had the right
of II and nobody objected.
"Jim was playing down ct Tom Multi.
gsn's pretty late one night with sort
Of . dandy sport that had dropped in
from Denver. Everybody else had
gone; Tom Mulligan had fallen asleep
In his chair, and the man behind the bar
was nodding across the counter, which
was almost directly back of Jim. He
was losing right along in Q way that
made him uncomfortable and suspicious.
He glanced around; the barkeeper was
hslf-lying across the bar with his head
ON one arm and his face turned toward
the players. He appeared to be asleep.
However, Jim took the precaution Of
quietly taking the plug from his ear,
without being observed by his opponent.
Pretty soon he heard the fellow behind
him softly lift his head little, as II
afraid of being overheard. and not with
the unconscious movement of sleeping
man. Jim slipped his hand down to
his revolver, noiseless.y adjusted q little
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-09-22
NO RED CHIPS.

An Old Gamblers Story Of the Hard
Luck He Once Had.
"Talk about luck, had streak once that
knocks the spots off anything Of that kind
I ever heard of
The speaker sat on one of the seats in the
Union depot yesterday with his long, gaunt
legs crossed and the big foot at the extremity
of his right leg moving up and down with an
easy and not ungraceful motion. He looked
pale and his cheeks were thin, but there was
bit Of fire in his gray eyes that indicated .
hidden vitality. He was an old-time gam
bier and his shifting luck had led him Q
merry chase over the South and West and
now he was drifting in from the mining
camps Of Western Montana with a few
dollars in his pocket and an ambition to
tackle game within the lines of civilization.
It was while in friendly conversation with
Globe reporter that the old gambler made
the above remark.
'Go ahead and tell us about it." said the
reporter, handing cigar over to the man Of
hazards.
The gambler accepted the proffered weed,
and, pinching the end off with his long
finger nails, lit it, and settling back in the
seat, pulled his hat down over the bridge of
his nose and said
"'Twas ten years ago, down in the southern
part of Indiana. I'd pretty hard luck all
the summer, and that fall I found myself
without dollar in my pocket, with Q long
winter staring me in the face and . long
climate, but concluded to pass away the
time in walking toward the warm part of
the country, where could sleep out of doors.
One day l strolled into Princeton, q small
town in the southern extremity of the State,
and I found pretty heavy game of stud
was my favorite graft, and / naturally went
up to the room TO watch the play and wish
was in with it. When got up there found
that the Hoosiers were using kernels of corn
fer chips and it didn't take me long to
remember that about half a mile outside Of
the town ! had passed corn-crib full OF
fresh grain. went down stairs and out
toward the corn-crib at double quick.
ut didn't take me long to get there, and in
the dark managed to work an ear through
o crack in the side of the crib. showed the
ear into my pocket and shelled off the ker-
nels q went back to town, congratulating
myself that at last fortune was about to
smile on me. reached the saloon and went
upstairs. ] took q seat by the table and the
dealer threw me an ace in the hole and tossed
me another q asight card; it was high and
had Q pair Of them. ! wanted to get up
and kick hole in the side Of the house, for
l felt In my bones that my luck was
coming back to me. With confident smile
tossed out . handful of corn and began tip
ping up my hole card as gamblers do to sort
Of bluff the other players, when the dealer
attracted my attention by saying: 'Thatr
are all right, stranger, but we amt plsyin'
red chips tonight I looked down at the
handful Of corn / had thrown out, and I'm
horse II it wasn't red. / got up and
sneaked down stairs. went out and slept
under the corn crib all night, and the next
morning walked around it and couldn't find
another red ear in the whole business. II
that amt hard luck then I'm off the track a
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the name Of the camp; gone now, not =
board left, though there must have been
thousand people there then. We
called Jim the man with the microphonic
ear Johnny Whittle, who hadn't been
out of college long, cooked up that name.
You see, Jim's right ear was Q most re-
markable organ. It was like q micro
scrope which was fitted for. hearing in
stead Of seeing. See flyFhat man could
hear bat wink in the daytime. When
Jim Budgelow took q room ct the hotel,
he could soon tell whether he was to be
the only occupant of the bed. All he
had to do was to give the thing Q kick
and put his ear to the headboard, and II
there were any inhabitants present he
could hear them crawl.
"This faculty of Jim's was In some re-
spects q very amusing one, 90 usually he
wore plug in that ear to soften things
down. But the boys never knew defi-
nitely when the plug was In, and for this
reason presume Jim Budgelow's char
acter was the only one In Hornetsville
that hadn't been thoroughly dissected.
Nobody dared to speak unexpectedly
Of Jim, for fear hs had . bead on 'em with
his right ear.
"One time Jim did me mighty good
turn, and Il II hadn't been for that same
ear ] wouldn't be here now. I'd been on
prospecting up among the mountains
Tor couple Of days with my
partner, Jack 0rodale, We thought
good, at least. But IL thias never
panned ont much, though that's neithey
here nor there. A. .Yas saying. Ne
Jscf ssd went beck q i IHorastsvilis fcs
provisions. ! had turned out of ~
tseneh guloh. IN WhiaA yeid heen pros
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-09-22
GOLD IN Alaska.


LArge Quantities Of the Precious Metal.
Dut Hard to Get st.
Ex-Govsrnor6. 9. T. Hauser, Of Montana, has
been in New York. He made summer trip
TO Alaska, with Benaton Vest, of Missouri.
Cameron, Of Pennsylvania, and Farwsll. OF
Illinois. - his guests. Chatting about Alaska
the other day, he said: "Of course, all there
= to the country =: seals and the new gold
nsver sesn such . body Of gold ore q / SsV
In Alaska. Il d In cli3 fronting the ocean,
and y 80 to 800 feet vids, practically inex.
ator Jones, Of Nevada. has fftk interest in
ths mihs. rredwell. the man who discovered
=. owns anothes nth, There = probably
deal Of proepechng 70 hnd q. Ths country
~ 80 s fss e e = ~ 9 ssssSs s:
4: =;
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-09-22
A ROYAL MARRIAGE.
The Expenses Of Wedding an Emperor Of
China Fixed by Law.

The Expenses Of Wedding an Emperor of
China Fixed by Law.
The expenses of the forthcoming marriage
Of the Emperor of China are estimated at
nearly two millions sterling, to be raised by
special contributions from the different prov
inces. The Empress Dowager has issued the
following decree on the esubject: ut is proper
that preparations should now be made forth
great event Of the marriage Of his majesty
the Emperor. We have therefore ordered
the controller Of the imperial housshold to
take al the steps prescribed for this occasion
in the imperial statutes. The state expsndi-
ture u strictly limited by hxed rule, and
great expenses ere being incurred TOR the work
Of military reorganization. More than
once misery has been general throughout
the provinces, and consideration for the suf-
ferinQ Of the people accsntuates th6impoEt-
example Of thrift % the nation, and the ~
ersd duty Of Al high funcionaria 4, aoeord-
ing 10 o1r desire, to encourase simplicity OF
living and to discourage extIavagance Let
than, thssfore, snjoin thaI sub0rdinatAs 70
pursue homes coQlsee. With this otjeo ~
fSuQ ens 70 lime % the aeconn6 qpe1e1
ln49 tn kqad- ~ ~ ~ 611iw ~ -
, T Z
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-09-22

The following incident y vouchsd foe By
scientific psrsons; An Enslish gsntlsman
vss presented With cask Of Nalmssy swsst
vine which W ordired 70 b PLACED in an
absent nom home Sor long Huc ana On
hb return ordered bis bufiG o opsn ths
v,nf vi & 81 n: &C. as (. ..oass@nt
the ent1anee 70 ~ fopn M closed By an
enspou9 fungle gQNth. An entrance was
q ! D I; I 9 ] J
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-09-22

eight more. We sat listlessly on
the starboard deck in our sea-chairs,
rather glum-looking set, talking at
intervals in lazy, desultory way Of any
trifing subject that came up. We spoke
of the fog, which had kept US back the
previous night. A small sharp-faced
man, of about forty-five, who usually
kept very quiet, and from whom no one
had succeeded in obtaining any bits of
autobiography to amount to anything,
suddenly spoke up, as II new and re-
markable idea had just popped into his
head:
by the great Harry, couldn't Jim
Budgelow have taken in the shekels as
special fog-watchman
We all started up interestedly at this
exclamation. There was silence for a
moment. Each one waited for some one
else to inquire into the special qualifica-
tions of Jim Budgelow for the position
of special fog-lookout. Finally an off
hand old gentleman from Illinois said:
perhaps you wouldn't mind telling
us something about that Mr.. Budgelow
now you've got our curiosity stirred ups"
"Noi don't know, that there's any
harm in giving you . few facts about
Jim," said the little sharp-faced man.
HE was a queer fellow, Jim was," he
went on slowly, with an air which
showed that he was going over specific
examples of Jim's peculiarities in his
own mind, though his statement was
general.
II first met him good many years ago
out ct Pixies Peak. Hornetsville was
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-09-22

HE trip was get
ting pretty dull.
The Northland
was q very slow
steamer. w 9
had been eight
days out from
Amsterdam,a and
there was every
pros pc CT of
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-09-22
MAKING CIGARS.


Ie1asso Used Mestly Drown in North
- oeaess-Fa Farmers say it 10 the Hard
- - An Crops b Raise Three Branches
ri the Trade and the Hands Employed.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-09-22

q row of buildings, in one of which he
fixes his Office and store-rooms; the other
rooms he lets to cigarmakers and their
families. Every morning leaf tobacco is
given them, which they must turn into so
many cigars. The manufacturer makes
profit on his rent, and by getting fam
lily labor, is enabled to produce cheap
goods. When it IL seen that the cigars
are made in the living rooms, amid the
dirt and filth of q foreign element, prin-
cipally Bohemians, the wretchedness of
the tenement-hOuse system is apparent.
The system is confined to New York
city and suburbs, and is not in operation
anywhere else. The "truck" system,
too, comes in for much criticism. 1t is
pursued principally in Pennsylvania,
where the manufacturer weighs out
leaf tobacco, like the tenement-house
manufacturer, to hif hands. who take
It to their homes, where the whole family
engage in the different branches Of cigar
making. No tobacco 10 wasted, for the
manufacturer expects and receives 20
many cigars from theleaf tobacco which
he furnishes. Cigars made in this way
can be sold - low - % thousand, the
government tax Of % thousand in
cluded. A hve-cent cigar costs the whole
ssler al the way from $50 . thousand
down to - thousand, although the latter
quality Of cigars are most frequently sold
. "twofors," two for . nickel.
Key West received its start - 3 cigar
manufacturing point because Of it, con.
tiguity to Havana and because Of it,
warm, moist climate, conditions very far
vorable to cigar manufacturing. Its rep
utation was seriously hurt e one time 81
u poor quality of clgsrs nade thsys.
yTo1 ~ lessnees 70 Havana, 4 IVES pop
u1(l9 eaDpoeo4 tAet oa9 dG.5v ven
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-09-22

10Docc0 plant. 1t ls left on these poles
I'LL the leaves commence to sweat, when
n - &tripped from the stalk, assorted into
zpoppeEs, seconds and fillers, tied up in
J ~ and packed away in cases, where it is
3o1&eEed to remain at least year, under
I 0eing sweating or curing process, before
h = ready for market. The tobacco ID
I. 11viaed into three piles Of wrappers, sec.
5z66s or binders and filters, according to
+ n lsngth. wrappers, Of course, fetching
~ highsst price.
~ A1fsr years seasoning the tobacco ID
{110 - ths leaf dealer, many tobacco
hants, however, doing their pur-
80 whsA the tobacco d on the poles
1alng thsir own packing. Here the
1ume1t steps In. Its actions are In
~ We woa't trouble the farmer,
~ M - free 70 raiss tobacco q
- - eon; but ~ moment Il eoee
r. - posssssion, We want fun
t1 = h TIN Il gets into the CON.
f hands. Il, thsrsfors, forces thu
2ooI8 y ssooBd ths quantity Of hid
p = . book provided for thai
~ ~ 6salss nust also enter tn
- - tehaoco hs sslIs, and "a
III ~ r. Every 90 ocpnsctsd
- fohnoeo busln1ss nust also bs
~ - nAnnfacturss mus
- bsad y o1oo ios sach
~ enpleyeL Hs nnsG
ets = 49, =
, 1887-02-05
General Jackson.

PIE imported Kentucky Jack,
stationed at Estate Lebanon Hill
is ready to serve for the season up
to the LIST August. a04
This fine animal is 144 bands
high, built in proportion and isa
successful getter; planters and stock
raisers of the island will not, we
hope, be slow to see the Importance
of engaging his service for the
improvement of their mule stock.
Terms for service S. cash.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24

These are only a few of the Syr-
ian housewives duties. Her reward
is not in this world surely. She
cannot speak to her husband in pub
lie; she can receive no caresses be
fore his friends. She goes yelled
and scantilv clad. She has no time
to make her own habiliments, for
her hands must weave and spin and
embrodier artistically, and abundant
" for the husband and the male
children. In winter her feet are
protected only by open wooden san
dals, and drops of blood mark her
way to the Syrian we'll. This is no
extraordinary thing, but by those
who have repeatedly seen it, L have
been informed. OF course this is
among the lower and middle class
of society in Syria, but those who
belong to higher class are very,
very few-SaUiS Cross.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24
Woman's Work In Syria.

There are grand women in Arabia /;
women of ability, keen insight and
wonderful capabilities. The duties
of the wife of a Syrian to-day are
as follows: She brings all the wa
ter for family use from a distant
well; this is accomplished by filling
immense jars, and bringing them
upon her head. She rises early and
goes to the handmill of the village,
carrying corn, enough of which for
the days bread she grinds by a slow,
laboriOus process. This she carries
home and cooks in an oven which is
made in the earth. 1t is a round
hole, lined with oval and fiat stones,
heated by fire built IN it. When
the bread is mixed with water and
a little salt she removes the ashes
and plasters little pats of dough
against the hot stones to cook.
Could anything be more crude?
She cares for her children-usual-
ly large family-and does all the
rough work at intervals. while the
devoted CD husband calmly smokes
his ''argelie," or sits cross-legged
upon his divan or housetop, in con-
versation with some equally hard
working member of Syrian society.
The houses are made of coarse stone
roughly hewn. The housetops are
of clay covered with coarse gravel.
In hot weather the sun bakes this
mud-f0rmed roof, and large cracks
appear. The rain comes, and, as a
natural consequence, the roof leaks.
This is something of which the
fastidious inhabitants of the bible
land does not approve. 1t does not
add to his bodily comfort. He rem
idies the difilculty-shall | tell you
how !? Not by any effort of his own
far from it his wife comes, ascends
to the housetop, and in the drench-
ing rain propels a roller of solid
stone backward and forward, much
as we use a lawn g3ower This
rolls the sun-dried cracks together,
and prevents the entrance of water.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24
STOVE STORE
IN OPERA BLOCK. Is the
place 90 strike.

People often ask "What do you do
with all ~" Stoves you pm into your
Store p We sell them How do
you buy good Goods and srlI them
AT small pfohty' W. con DO Do
because we handle 80 many. If we
sold less ihnuld have tu gct more
proit on c1ch stove. 80 you ser thai b.
Is better io 20 where the crowd dorz.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24

When Baby was sick we gave her Castoria,
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria
When she became Miss. she chung to Castoria,